A recent survey conducted by TradeInsight suggested that 31 percent of consumer packaged goods manufacturers cite trade compliance as a major issue in their business. It’s an issue that has far-reaching implications.Read More

Why do we invest in retailers? This simple question is often asked by naïve consumer marketers as they see their advertising budgets whittled away by the “profligate guys” on the sales team. And retailers have a clear, simple answer to this—retailers own the shopper. With so much being spent, surely brand owners should aspire to more: aspire to make some return on all this expenditure.Read More

How does a shopper react to a product not being available? Her actions can be categorized into three key possibilities: either she will defer the purchase of that object until another shopping trip, she will buy something else, or she will buy nothing at all and continue with the rest of the shop. Read More

The majority of shopper marketing activity takes place in a retailer’s store (either on or offline) and therefore we need retailer buy-in to get that execution to take place. At its heart our presentation to the retailer must contain a clear value proposition which explains to the retailer why they should support the activity.Read More